Later Life
Reardon retired following the 1949 World Series. Although by the late 1940s he was the highest-paid umpire in the league, he was earning three times as much from his offseason business as an Anheuser-Busch beer distributor. He eventually sold the distributorship to Frank Sinatra for over half a million dollars in 1967, although he continued to do public relations work for the brewery.
Reardon made an uncredited appearance in the 1953 movie The Kid From Left Field, in which he portrayed an umpire.
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